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Psychiatry in the UK: an overview

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Vicky Banks ,
Geoff Searle  and
Rachel Jenkins
Vicky Banks
Affiliation:
Royal College of Psychiatrists, email Vicky.Banks@hantspt-sw.nhs.uk
Geoff Searle
Affiliation:
Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust, Core and Quality Training Programme Director, Wessex Deanery
Rachel Jenkins
Affiliation:
WHO Collaborating Center and Section for Mental Health Policy, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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The National Health Service (NHS) serves the UK through four devolved organisations for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the world, universal and free at the point of delivery. Its key challenge is to maintain this approach within tight financial constraints, while embracing new technologies, treatments and styles of service delivery, as well as meeting the health needs of an ageing population.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , May 2011 , pp. 35 - 38
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